Movie Review--Children of the Corn

Here's a tip. If you are a couple whose marriage is in trouble, it is something of a mistake to drive through the endless cornfields of Nebraska at night and then

run somebody down near an apparently deserted town where the locals have a thing for blood sacrifice with a view to aiding crop fertility

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Yes, I know I just spoilered the plot, but honestly. This movie - which spawned a franchise of increasingly poor sequels - illustrates the problem with adapting Stephen King to the screen: the story itself, in terms of plot, is serviceable. But the magic comes from the words on the page. King's prose conveys things which movie conversions do not. Oh, the plot works well enough, but it is simple and, dare I say it, filled with cliché. The short story from which it is adapted - ah, well that is another story!

Peter Horton and Lina Hamilton are fine as the couple beset with problems, and a nice sense of atmosphere is built up. But, as a viewer who has not read the story or seen the film before - well, I bet you can guess what's going to happen.

Well, it scared me way back in the 80s, but I watch it with my 10 year old just a couple of months ago and she laughed at the graphics. The weird static stuff moving across the corn field seemed ridiculous. Now, I'm sure if I let her read the story it would terrify her. Peter Horton will always be Gary from 30something for me, and Linda will always be Terminator's gal.

Hey @Neil W ..... would you consider giving a title other than "General Assessment" to your threads? .....
it makes me feel like I'm reading a physicians report in a mental ward....LOL

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I am a complete chump, or I would have been doing that from the start (in fact I keep thinking that all of them having the same name is a bit of a trial). Yes, I will do that from now on. I just hated to see all those titles with no threads against them. If I could get back and change the thread titles retrospectively, I would do so. If I can't and Ms Mod is able to do so, it would really fab and groovy if she were to do so, because I can't imagine she has much else to do (satirical wink satirical sympathetic wink).

I am a complete chump, or I would have been doing that from the start (in fact I keep thinking that all of them having the same name is a bit of a trial). Yes, I will do that from now on. I just hated to see all those titles with no threads against them. If I could get back and change the thread titles retrospectively, I would do so. If I can't and Ms Mod is able to do so, it would really fab and groovy if she were to do so, because I can't imagine she has much else to do (satirical wink satirical sympathetic wink).

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Have been doing that since yesterday as I come across them in the New Posts. When I first saw the titles in the New Posts queue, I'd thought there had been a double post by mistake.

I am a complete chump, or I would have been doing that from the start (in fact I keep thinking that all of them having the same name is a bit of a trial). Yes, I will do that from now on. I just hated to see all those titles with no threads against them. If I could get back and change the thread titles retrospectively, I would do so. If I can't and Ms Mod is able to do so, it would really fab and groovy if she were to do so, because I can't imagine she has much else to do (satirical wink satirical sympathetic wink).

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Nah.....you're not a chump at all. I was just getting confused with where I had been. I'm enjoying your posts, btw

Children of the Corn is a classic even though the ending could have been a little better. The movie has another solid feature that is severely missing in today's flicks, and that is a haunting, chilling and memorable music score.

Loved the short story and loved the first movie the best. Still freaks me out about those creepy kids. This is a good reason if you dont have any other to not leave kids unsupervised for any real length of time.
*Shivers*